Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remainder of the new ABC children's shows are, unfortunately, more like the old ones. Funky Phantom is an adventure cartoon centering around three teenagers, their pet dog and a ghost from the Revolutionary War era. Also new is Lidsville. It is a loud and noisy half-hour telling about a kid who took a header into a giant top hat and ended up in a land called Lidsville, inhabited by, of all things, hats. Head bad guy is an inept wizard named Whoo-Doo, who calls his minions "stupid" and classifies them as "little creeps." Jackson 5, still...
...much undiscovered oil lying off Long Island, where 42 oil companies are now involved in exploration, as there is on Alaska's North Slope. If oil is found and exploited, warns the environmentalist Committee for Resource Management, "Long Island could have a solid string of ghost beaches...
...Glamis is far from unique. Author Underwood's high-spirited book provides equally fascinating lore about Britain's other haunts. It tells which ghost is working which castle, describes the author's own investigations of the ectoplasmic phenomena, and, at the end of each of the 236 reports on haunted sites, lists the name of a comfortable nearby hotel...
...ghost hunter of long standing, Underwood has presumably stayed overnight at most of the hotels and for ten years has been president of the Ghost Club. The exclusive organization was founded more than 100 years ago to report and investigate reports of hauntings. Does he really believe in ghosts? "I am quite certain," Underwood says, "that I have spoken to many people who are genuinely convinced that they have seen apparitions, phantoms, specters, spirits, ghosts-call them what you will...
Britain's ghosts, reports Underwood's book, are nowhere busier than in London. The Bank of England, for example, has a resident ghost: the Black Nun. Several London theaters have ghosts, most notably the Theater Royal on Drury Lane, where the good-omened "man in gray" floats into view-but only during the opening nights of successful productions. Westminster Cathedral, which was long ghost-free, reported its first spook in 1966, but Kensington and St. James's palaces and Windsor Castle have much longer ghostly histories, and the bloody Tower of London has been plagued for centuries...